Who are we and what do we want?
Let’s not go to our grave without answering these two simple questions and living our life accordingly.
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Who are we and what do we want?
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We all know the answer to this common midlife dilemma
This quote struck me while sitting in a Cleveland hotel room, sipping the morning’s first cup of coffee.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
– William Stafford
We all know why we stop. We don’t share the same exact reason, but we do all pick from the same generic list of excuses.
It took me 30 years to write the first sentence for Mid Life Celebration: rethink • reprioritize • recommit.
Took two more years to finish it.
Took two more years after that to get the guts to commit to publishing.
I get what you get and hear what you hear and fear what you fear, but kept going anyway.
Here’s to you.
(click the link below to get to the horrific Saddam Hussain post told by my cab driver)
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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Every day heroes
Police in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, received a call during this week’s ice storm. A man said his 90-year-old aunt could not be contacted, and could someone please check to make sure she was OK. He was not sure the name of the road on which she lived; he thought it was River Road, and she lived in a trailer. Power was out in that area, and she was alone.
Southern Regional Police Chief John Fiorill spent the next 4 hours navigating icy roads, downed power lines and fallen trees trying to find her. Areas near the Susquehanna River are dotted with mobile homes, which sit along winding, hilly, sometimes one-lane roads. Chief Fiorill checked all of the trailers in the township that he could find. Finally on River View Road, he saw a hand lettered, cardboard sign in the window of a trailer. It said, “Help Me”.
Inside he found the woman, no heat, phone or electricity, bundled up in heavy sweatpants and socks and gloves, scarf and coat and hat. She had also bundled up her little dog, who was waiting to be rescued along with her. The police chief said he doubts if she would have survived another day. He contacted relatives, who were anxious to take her in with them but who had no way to transport her. So Chief Fiorill loaded the woman and her little dog into his vehicle and drove them to safety with her family.
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Three groups of people (which group are we?)
Three groups of people (and we move through all three in our lifetime, yet have a general comfort zone):
- optimists
- pessimists
- fence-sitters (waffle back and forth)
Mid Life Celebration is a book that will have the following fairly predictable outcomes:
- optimists – will cheer, take action, and show gratitude
- pessimists – will be defensive, angry, and bad mouth
- fence sitters – will agree because the truths are self-evident, but won’t do anything
You know, a miracle could happen, and everyone, everywhere would find the message as the right catalyst at the right time.
We can dream can’t we?
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PS. Yes, the tee shirt number is one billion.
Cop a Boomer attitude towards death Steve Jobs style?
Cop a Boomer attitude towards death Steve Jobs style? Yes, try this one on for size:
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. – Steve Jobs
We know this.
Live, before you die. This ain’t a practice round.
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